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and a NOAA Presidential Rank Award (2005). He recently received the
AMS Carl Gustav Rossby Gold Medal (2008) for “fundamental insights into
the dynamics of the Earth's climate through studies of idealized models and
comprehensive climate simulations.”
Dennis Lettenmaier is the Robert and Irene Sylvester Professor of Civil
Engineering at the University of Washington. Dr. Lettenmaier's interests
include hydroclimatology, surface water hydrology, and hydrologic aspects
of remote sensing. He was a recipient of ASCE's Huber Research Prize in
1990 and the American Geophysical Union Hydrology Section Award in
2000, and he is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union, the American
Meteorological Society, and the American Association for the Advance-
ment of Science. He is the author of more than 200 journal articles. He is
the past Chief Editor of the American Meteorological Society's Journal of
Hydrometeorology , and he is President-Elect of the American Geophysical
Union Hydrology Section. He was elected to the National Academy of En-
gineering in 2010. Dr. Lettenmaier is a member of the NRC Committee on
Hydrologic Science, and has served on other NRC committees and panels
including the Committee on the National Ecological Observatory Network
(2003-2004), the Committee for Earth Science and Applications from Space:
A Community Assessment and Strategy for the Future (2005-2007), and the
Committee on Scientific Bases of Colorado River Basin Water Management
(2006-2007). Dr. Lettenmaier received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (1975)
from the University of Washington.
David Lobell is an assistant professor at Stanford University in environmental
earth system science, and a center fellow in Stanford's Program on Food
Security and the Environment. His research focuses on identifying oppor-
tunities to raise crop yields in major agricultural regions, with a particular
emphasis on adaptation to climate change. His current projects span Africa,
South Asia, Mexico, and the United States and involve a range of tools
including remote sensing, GIS, and crop and climate models. Prior to his
current appointment, Dr. Lobell was a senior research scholar at FSE from
2008-2009 and a Lawrence Post-doctoral Fellow at Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory from 2005-2007. He received a Ph.D. in Geological
and Environmental Sciences from Stanford University in 2005, and a Sc.B. in
Applied Mathematics, magna cum laude from Brown University in 2000.
H. Damon Matthews is assistant professor and university research fellow
in the Department of Geography Planning and Environment at Concordia